A family reunion and medieval-style murder? Ever so inconvenient.
Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth-century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting his four grown children with threats of disinheritance. Then he announces his latest blow - he's engaged to Violet, a beautiful widow with a dubious past.
Money-driven panic soon sets in among the backstabbing brood when eldest son and appointed heir, Ruthven, turns up dead in the wine cellar. Who will win the inheritance sweepstakes? It's a house full of suspicion, greed, vengeful malice - and ample motives for murder. Can Detective Chief Inspector St. Just nab the killer before another heir lands in the family burial plot?
Praise for G.M. Malliet:
'Miss Marple would approve' Daily Mail
'A superb novel . . . a wonderful read' Louise Penny
- ISBN10 147211776X
- ISBN13 9781472117762
- Publish Date 5 March 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English